<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Oct 10 2008, 04:27 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Oct 10 2008, 04:27 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Telengana was historically separated from the rest of Telugu speaking land by first the Bahmani kingdom and the Qutub Shahi and Nizam rulers. The meger with Andhra to create Andhra Pradesh was in 1956.
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A "single-exclusively-telugu-speaking-land" is a fantastic myth. it was never a reality of history until the unnecessary subnational regionalist agitation of 1950s that resulted in what you today have. As far as telangana, at least the region north of Godavari were always a matter of now-in-now-out for the telugu rulers' domains before turuShka take over of golkonda, and at times even after. As far as "separating" telangana by Nizam -- in fact Nizams, the first two, had done exactly the opposite. They were the ones who retook the tamilnadu lands in south and controlled at least 20% of maharashtra lands to their west, while sporadically also controlling kannada speaking lands in south-west, in a huge "hyderabad". While balaji and madhavrao had regained a lot of lands from Nizam, British later forced the Marathas to return the lands to their puppet last 3 nizams, and controlled Tamilnadu lands themselves.
If 1956 did anything, it returned Marathi speaking districts to a new Maharashtra state while regaining from TN some of the telugu speaking lands in south (besides some more give and take on "Mysore" into a Karnataka state. So, coming back to telangana, it was never "separated" or "merged" with any telugu land -- such a land never existed until the after-effectes of the martyrdom of the great son of maa telugu thalli, and results of which are seen in the birth of illegitimates such as thackerays.
Break all "language" lands into multiple so that no state can claim any monopoly on a language-ethnic-culture to accumulate unnecessary and fictitious pride into 'state'. decouple the genuine regional cultural pride away from politics by having two-three Telugu-speaking, two-three marathi speaking, tamil speaking, bengali-speaking, oriya-speaking and so on states. likewise break all north indian large states into smaller ones as well.
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A "single-exclusively-telugu-speaking-land" is a fantastic myth. it was never a reality of history until the unnecessary subnational regionalist agitation of 1950s that resulted in what you today have. As far as telangana, at least the region north of Godavari were always a matter of now-in-now-out for the telugu rulers' domains before turuShka take over of golkonda, and at times even after. As far as "separating" telangana by Nizam -- in fact Nizams, the first two, had done exactly the opposite. They were the ones who retook the tamilnadu lands in south and controlled at least 20% of maharashtra lands to their west, while sporadically also controlling kannada speaking lands in south-west, in a huge "hyderabad". While balaji and madhavrao had regained a lot of lands from Nizam, British later forced the Marathas to return the lands to their puppet last 3 nizams, and controlled Tamilnadu lands themselves.
If 1956 did anything, it returned Marathi speaking districts to a new Maharashtra state while regaining from TN some of the telugu speaking lands in south (besides some more give and take on "Mysore" into a Karnataka state. So, coming back to telangana, it was never "separated" or "merged" with any telugu land -- such a land never existed until the after-effectes of the martyrdom of the great son of maa telugu thalli, and results of which are seen in the birth of illegitimates such as thackerays.
Break all "language" lands into multiple so that no state can claim any monopoly on a language-ethnic-culture to accumulate unnecessary and fictitious pride into 'state'. decouple the genuine regional cultural pride away from politics by having two-three Telugu-speaking, two-three marathi speaking, tamil speaking, bengali-speaking, oriya-speaking and so on states. likewise break all north indian large states into smaller ones as well.